Teaching software, lesson plans, professional development, and more for evidenced based learning
Where do you live? Where are you from? How many people are in your house? Do you have Wi-Fi? Do you have food? I have always said if I were a principal, one of the ways I would assess my teachers is by making sure they were cognizant of their student’s living situations – and … Read more
In his twenty fifth produced play, All’s Well That Ends Well, William Shakespeare poignantly wrote that “Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises.” Today, this quote has been translated into the commonly heard saying, “Expectation is the root of all heartbreak.” Never before have I truly understood this concept until March … Read more
After reading the article Dr. Oz Faces Backlash After Saying Schools Could Reopen, it made me realize I didn’t want to be at the front of the line of the human experiment that was being discussed, nor did I have any colleagues that I wanted to offer up on the alter of capitalism. Dr. Oz, … Read more
Humans have five basic senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste. The sensing organs associated with each sense send information to the brain to help us understand and perceive the world around us. Online teaching provides only two of these senses. Those of use who use all five, or six, are making huge shifts to … Read more
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Saturday that New York City’s public schools – the largest district in the nation – “would close through the academic term.” This announcement came a month after the Coronavirus became widespread across the state of New York and across the country. School districts, teachers and parents now … Read more
In a recent article an administrator said, “We are not doing remote learning because not every kid has a laptop and internet access. It’s about equity.” So let me try to understand this. During the regular school year, when teachers took attendance and some students were marked absent, school shut down and sent all of … Read more
Mastery Tracker Edify Consulting creates software, tools, and other resources to support educators in their efforts to raise student achievement. Its Mastery Tracker software is already being celebrated by educators across the globe as a one-of-a-kind application that creates actual student level data for improved student learning and data driven decision making. The Mastery Tracker … Read more
Are your annual Academic Improvement Plans copied and pasted from year to year? Do principals simply tweak the percentages for math and ELA? Can they explicitly describe how they will move 4th grade Math from 42% – 70% this year? If we are being honest, we will have to admit that our efforts to improve … Read more
Are you challenged with moving the needle on student achievement? If we aspire to real growth, data-driven instruction will need to be more than a catch phrase. Schools currently use quarterly benchmarks and outcomes from the annual state assessment to evaluate overall school health and achievement. The challenges with these current data sources lie in their … Read more
The Common Core Standards: The Chatter vs. The Truth The Chatter Recent soundbytes have offered continued opposition to the use of the common core standards in public schools. Everyone from President Trump to the cashier at the local grocery store has managed to form an opinion about why we should or should not be using … Read more